November 5, 2017

Lesson from cartoon

Nowadays, movie is one of the best ways which people choose to entertain when they are bored. With awesome visual effect, catchy music, and attractive plot, movies can easily have an attention of the audience. Most of the people watch the movie for the amusement, but there is one sentence from my dad which I always remember: "There is always a lesson from what you do every day". Therefore, besides watching a movie for pleasure, we can learn many useful things through every scene of the movie. To make this blog more outstanding, this week I will choose to write about a cartoon movie because many people think that we cannot learn anything from kid movie but they are wrong. Two lessons which I am going to discuss are the ethical lesson and cinematic lesson.
This week The adventures of Puss in Boots is my primary choice for the blog. Firstly, I want to mention about the sound effect of the movie. Only listening to the music, the audience can easily understand what the scene wants to talk about; furthermore, maybe they can figure out why the filmmakers use that sound in particular scene. The opening music knows how to follow the spirit of the movie. Start with the flamenco music which is played by the guitar, the audience can right away recognize that this series follows the spirit of Spain, the country which famous with guitar's performance. The fast and lively flamenco can light the fire inside every audience, especially kid under ten years old. This is a small trick which the filmmakers use to increase the view of the series. Because the purpose of this movie is to focus on children who are under ten years old, so they cleverly use the music which has vibrant tone. Moreover, because children are easily attracted every time they hear the vibrant music, so after watching the opening, they will get excited and want to watch the entire show. Therefore, the view will increase which can benefit to the filmmakers. Furthermore, during the fight scene, the viewer can quickly notice that the drum and the horn will be raised. Because this movie is made based on Spanish spirit, so Puss will be built following the el matador. In every fight with the bull, the horn and drum will be played to encourage the spirit of the fighter, so in every fight scene, combining with the sound of the hitting swords and scream of the people, these sound will form a dramatic scene which the audience will be interested.
Secondly, we also can learn some important lessons which connect to our life. In the first episode of the series, after stealing a coin from a secret temple, which causes a serious trouble for the hidden city, Puss tried to escape from what he has done. However, at the end, he decided to stay and solved his own problem. Through his action, we can learn one thing that we cannot run forever from what we have done. We have to face it and solve it. It is okay to run away if you can live the rest of your life in regret. Furthermore, this cartoon may reshape our perspective about the outlaw person. Although criminals usually do crazy stuff and break the law, they sometimes help others get out of the deadly situation. Like in the movie, Puss might be an outlaw, but he always helps children and poor people from the tyrants.
In conclusion, besides watching a movie for enjoyment and entertainment, we can learn many things from it. All we have to do it paying attention to every detail in the movie and related it to our daily life.



1 comment:

  1. I like how you pulled some deep life lessons out of such a light hearted well known cartoon. It really sets up a good foundation for lessons that can be learned from media.

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